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To which the French midfielder apparently retorted by telling his manager to go through is agent next time he wants to make contact.

Tony Alderweireld is still occupying plenty of column inches - long after his move out of Tottenham seemed to have passed - and it's The Mirror now reporting that Bayern Munich might take him before the end of the month.

Hopefully, we will have a clearer idea of Kevin de Bruyne's knee injury later today because at the moment the papers can't decide whether the Manchester City playmaker will be out for two, three or four months.

Chelsea may have completed its major player transactions, but the club remains in hot pursuit of a new director of football and The Telegraph reckons the FA's technical director Dan Ashworth is being lined up alongside the likes of former Blues midfielder and German international Michael Ballack.